ARE YOU CELEBRATING PUNKY NIGHT? OR WYN MONATH?
Well, that’s what you should be doing in Octo- ber if you are an ancient Saxon, whose clan named this month Wyn Monath as it was the season of wine making (bring it on!). In fact it gained the name October under the old Roman calendar as it was the eighth month; thus Octo. As for Punky Night, you must be in deepest Somerset to celebrate that, as it is a tradition that dates back further than All Hal- lows Eve. Some time in the Middle Ages, all the men of Hinto (now Hinton) St Georges went off to a fair and never came back, so the women went searching for them with punkies – a pumpkin hollowed out with holes made and a candle lighting the way. Sounding more familiar now? Happy Halloween!
OK, back to the real world for a moment: this issue is full to bursting with information – or in the case of the front page, lack of information. Not from us, but from central Government. We cannot tell you the volume of calls and emails we are fielding with folk asking what’s happen- ing: with the Law Commission (the what?), with the new fees from October 1st (where exactly? – see Opinion), with the state of the industry in the capital and elsewhere, which is why we present you with the gist of a 19-page debate from Westminster Hall last month that concluded... nothing. They’re working on it. Then there is the latest compilation of stats
from the Department for Transport as to the number of licensed vehicles around the country; Chief Anorak (he of League Tables fame) has been working on that for some con- siderable time, and he raises several, er, shall we say, anomalies?
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Check out the full tables, and explanatory notes, inside. What was it Sergeant Friday used to say on Dragnet? “Just the facts, ma’am...” We wanted you to get the full picture, as provid- ed by the councils over the past month.
Then we have profiles (from London and Merseyside), Uber-itis from all four corners of the globe and on the doorstep, and indeed a suggestion or two on how to “beat ‘em and join ‘em” at the same time. There is also All Our Yes- terdays and Medical Matters, legalese galore...and just a dollop or two of news thrown in for good measure. In other words, our usual informative read. That’s what we’re told...
Senor Littlejohn was on holiday this last month, but before he left he posed readers a few ques- tions as might be raised by today’s youngsters whilst in the car going on holiday, leaving their
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parents totally flummoxed for a reply. The answer to all of these is “...Dunno...”: “Why do the police spend so much time investigating dead people for crimes allegedly committed 50 years ago? And why won’t they investigate burglaries which happen now? Why won’t they rescue people who fall into ponds?
“Is red meat good for you or bad for you this week? If e-cigarettes help people give up smok- ing, why do they want to ban them? Why does the NHS pay for foreigners to get treatment abroad? Why is there a polar bear on Fox’s Gla- cier Mints? Why are the tube drivers on strike again? Why don’t they just sack them and hire some new drivers? Why are we stuck in a traffic jam behind hundreds of lorries on the M20?
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